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Judgement is always a viable option. Earthquake is always a powerful move to have, same with Psychic. The best type for Arceus is Electric because electric is only weak to ground. Teach it Energy Ball to fight ground types.

Keep it a normal Type, since it's the most reliable. (No Dragon typing. C'mon, EVERYONE will expect a Draco-Arceus.)

Since it's a normal-type, its only weakness is Fighting, you could teach it Psychic. You can go for a Physical or Special Route, depending on how you want to use this God of a Pokemon.

PHYSICAL ROUTE:
Zen Headbutt
Last Resort
Earthquake
Dragon Claw

SPECIAL ROUTE:
Psychic
Hyper Voice
Ice Beam
Thunderbolt

Arceus has a MONSTROUS movepool, so it's quite possible I missed something important. It's easy to make a good movepool for it though. Just open that bag, and look for a TM. Chances are, he can learn it. =P

EDIT: Like Trachy said, Electric is also a great type, due to its one weakness and three resistances (electric, steel, and flying). I simply picked normal because of the versatile typing, and easy STAB for both Last Resort and Hyper Voice.

actually Arceus cant learn Shadow Force there was a one time give away around the release of Platinum which it knew judgement shadow force roar of time and spacial rend but unless you have one of those and plan on ruining its one time event status then you have no way of getting arceus with shadow force without hacking etc

Judgement is powerful STAB that even gets boosted by the item, if you use this in the Sun then you will be doing tons of damage. Ice-beam, Thunderbolt, and Earth-power give him super effective coverage over 488 Pokemon and neutral over the rest.

Disgruntled goat of BULK!

Cosmic power makes your defenses over 500 after one use. Recover is for healing. Toxic is for stalling while Will-o-wisp can also be used but can be used to cut opponents attack. Refresh can remove status ailments while Earthpower can be used to get rid of the steel type that would kill you choose toxic.

Swords dance is a very helpful move, as Arceus can take almost any hit and, after a swords dance, is an instant powerhouse. Extremespeed is one of the premier moves, to be used right after SD to demolish the opponent's team. Earthquake takes out the rock and steel types. Recover is used to increase Arceus's longevity. Why no plate, you ask? Well, Arceus, being a normal type, already has only one weakness, and you can really notice the difference of power when you have a life orb instead of a plate, and the main move is extremespeed, so why would you change the type when you can have a life orb boosted STAB move with +2 priority? Leftovers is also a good item to be used instead of life orb, though you will definitely notice the lack of ridiculous power that life orb gives.

Freezing Rain

You do not need splash plate to perform in the Rain, he even works as Groudon Killer! Judgement is his signature move, always STAB, it has 180 Base-power and is super-effective on Groudon, it will always OHKO unless full EVs are spent in Groudon's S.Defense and HP, and it has super-effective coverage on about half of the rest of Uber as well. Thunder get 100% with Kyogre support and his great coverage paired with Judgement. Shadow-ball is awesome coverage in Uber. Recover is for you to last longer while Calm-mind would be for boosting.

Note: If you plan on running this outside of rain remember to switch Thunder for Thunderbolt.

According to the type checker, Fire + Dragon give almost perfect neutral coverage. I know that it does not account for abilities and the only Pokemon I can think of that resist this is Flash Fire Heatran.

So yea, Fire Judgement is powerful STAB, and in the Sun...BAWS. Spacial Rend is for consistent damage while Draco Meteor is more hit-&-run, so your choice.

Earth Power is for Heatran and coverage that might be too bulky for Draco-Flare * cough * Steel-Types * cough *.

The last slot is also your choice. SolarBeam is for Sun teams and powerful coverage, but if you are afraid that the weather might be changed on you, go for Energy Ball.